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That’s horrible, I’m sorry for your loss.

This is super cool, thank you for making it!

ProjectionLab is fantastic, thank you for making it.

A decade ago I wrote an extension called SelectorGadget (https://selectorgadget.com/). It's effectively unmaintained, but it still works and people still use it. I make no money from it and never have. Every few months someone tries to buy it from me, and I ignore them because I don't want to f** over my users. But there are a lot of extensions out there and maybe their owners care less, or find themselves in a moment of financial hardship and they sell.

Actual press release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-...

NASA needs multiple lander options; putting all their cards on a lunar Starship landing was always a bit ridiculous, even if it seems reasonably likely to happen. So if you want the Artemis program to actually succeed, this is likely a good thing. However, with Congress in a deadlock around the debt ceiling, and SLS costing $4B per launch, this is only going to add to Artemis's serious funding challenges.

If you're interested in the space industry in general, I'll cover this more next week in the weekly Orbital Index newsletter (https://orbitalindex.com) which I co-author with blach.

Cool! I made something similar that lives in a browser extension: https://github.com/cantino/browser-friend

I just released something like this embedded in a browser extension. Except the prompt includes a TypeScript interface that GPT4 is asked to follow. Works very well and reliably uses tools like Calculate, RequestDOM, etc.

https://github.com/cantino/browser-friend

Yes agreed. Teflon is shorthand for all of the fluorinated hydrocarbons in my mind. I know they’re not identical but they’re close enough and most if not all will end up being found to be toxic.

The problem is a lack of a precautionary principle— manufacturers can change one molecule and re-market their product and groups like the EPA have to do extensive research on each new variant to show danger. Molecules are assumed safe and marketable until shown otherwise by underfunded agencies. It’s insane.

See this site: https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/fccmigex

Glass, metal, ceramic, old fashioned plastic. The problem is generally packaging materials not things like Tupperware or glassware.

Yup: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...

Yes to both of those.

Just. Stop. Putting. Teflon. On. Everything.

Figuring out what does and does not have PFAS on it to protect my family is exhausting and infuriating. I’ve emailed with manufacturers, sent stuff to labs; basically, no one seems to know how much materials like this are used on every day products.

Oh man, I have been working on an extension like this over the last few days. Congrats on your release!

You should definitely submit this to https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space#earth!

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Is Long Now still going strong? It feels like I haven’t heard much from them in a while. Still a big fan.

Edit: and yes, I know they are philosophically opposed to doing anything quickly.

Those rockets didn't have nearly enough boosters.

Jatan’s other newsletter, Moon Monday, is also excellent!

Mostly with a bunch of handy quick tools that in the past I would have put in bookmarklets.

I have a personal browser extension that I use as a grab bag of assorted tools and fixes for sites that annoy me. It's half way between a userscript, a bookmarklet directory, and a UNIX shell, with little commands that run automatically on certain sites or operate on the DOM, and can pipe output to other commands. Here's a very old video of it in action: https://vimeo.com/118090094 (It's no longer open source because I don't want to have to maintain it for other people.)

I ran a website called JavaScript Town when I was in high school in the 90s. Probably should have kept that online.

And this is definitely incomplete, so the real number is probably significantly larger. I know of multiple climate tech deals not present in the data they cite.

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I disagree. The currently envisioned approaches are impractical due to in-orbit assembly needs, but there are other options.

I was just thinking that I'd write a command for this if it didn't exist already. But it does: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/50852

MethaneSAT is quite important!

I author Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com) weekly about the space industry. Hit me up if you want to chat.

I think this is exactly right.